| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1980 | 3,328 |
| 2 | Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1979 | 451 |
| 3 | The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1996 | 440 |
| 4 | What Is Philosophy? | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1996 | 428 |
| 5 | The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1979 | 400 |
| 6 | More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1990 | 381 |
| 7 | Aesthetics and Psychobiology | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1973 | 362 |
| 8 | Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1992 | 301 |
| 9 | The Role of Theory in Aesthetics | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1956 | 253 |
| 10 | Validity in Interpretation | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1968 | 212 |
| 11 | The Origin of German Tragic Drama | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1978 | 190 |
| 12 | Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1993 | 182 |
| 13 | Empathic Engagement with Narrative Fictions | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 2004 | 182 |
| 14 | Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1992 | 180 |
| 15 | Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1986 | 178 |
| 16 | On the Origins of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness" | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1961 | 170 |
| 17 | The Originality of the Avant Garde and Other Modernist Myths | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1988 | 159 |
| 18 | The Transfiguration of the Commonplace | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1974 | 152 |
| 19 | The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 2002 | 152 |
| 20 | Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1972 | 144 |
| 21 | The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1991 | 141 |
| 22 | Children's Drawings as Measures of Intellectual Maturity | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1965 | 132 |
| 23 | Deconstruction and Criticism | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1980 | 130 |
| 24 | Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1999 | 121 |
| 25 | Critical Theory since Plato | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1972 | 117 |
| 26 | Toward an Aesthetic of Reception | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1983 | 116 |
| 27 | The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1989 | 114 |
| 28 | Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1991 | 114 |
| 29 | The Experiential Account of Aesthetic Value | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 2006 | 114 |
| 30 | Improvisation and the Creative Process: Dewey, Collingwood, and the Aesthetics of Spontaneity | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 2000 | 113 |
| 31 | The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1994 | 111 |
| 32 | Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1989 | 110 |
| 33 | Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1990 | 110 |
| 34 | The Language of Post-Modern Architecture | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1978 | 104 |
| 35 | ">On The Origins of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness" | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1961 | 101 |
| 36 | Hermeneutics, Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1971 | 100 |
| 37 | The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1993 | 98 |
| 38 | Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1968 | 97 |
| 39 | The Well-Wrought Urn | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1947 | 96 |
| 40 | Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1970 | 95 |
| 41 | Studies in the New Experimental Aesthetics: Steps toward an Objective Psychology of Aesthetic Appreciation | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1975 | 95 |
| 42 | On Pictorial Representation | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1998 | 95 |
| 43 | Proprioception as an Aesthetic Sense | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 2006 | 90 |
| 44 | Imagination and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1998 | 90 |
| 45 | Meaning in Music and Information Theory | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1957 | 89 |
| 46 | Marxism and Literary Criticism | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1977 | 89 |
| 47 | THE ROLE OF THEORY IN AESTHETICS | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1956 | 88 |
| 48 | The Japanese Aesthetics of Imperfection and Insufficiency | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1997 | 87 |
| 49 | Imagining and Believing: The Promise of a Single Code | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 2004 | 87 |
| 50 | Motion and Feeling through Music | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1966 | 84 |
